Show Me Your HUD UI Layouts

Hi!

I'm one of those players who set up their action bars 1 thru = with Shift, Alt, and Ctrl for a total 36 abilities. I want to do better and keybind my action bars in a less awkward way.

Please share how you have your action bars keybound and your HUD set laid out for the game. I'd really appreciate it!

I still use almost the same UI and HUD layout I have had for years.




My keybinds are 1-5 and ~, ctrl 1-5 and ~, alt 1-5 and ~ ctrl+alt 1-5 and ~, ctrl shift 1-5 and ~, and alt+shift 1-5 and ~. Modifiers are on my mouse side buttons.

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I can’t… for… reasons.

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Originally Posted by Pratini

I can’t… for… reasons.

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reasons of the 3rd kind.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...-no?authuser=0

This is the layout I use (I'm left handed). I have a Razer Naga mouse and the combat toolbars (1 and 2) mirror the layout of the 12 buttons on the side. Bars 3 and 6 are where I put all my cooldowns, potions and markers; these are mapped to keys on the keyboard. The rest are all non combat, frequently used stuff. I use the Ins/Home/PageUp/Del/End/PageDown for mapping most of the cooldowns and frequently used stuff like mounts and F9 to F12 for other stuff. In other games I also use the number pad as being left handed, these keys are easy for me to reach and identify without looking at them :)

https://i.imgur.com/i1ZVCar.png
My layout is absolutely cursed, but I'm too used to it lol.

My hands won't do Shift, Alt, Ctrl well at all so I have my single target rotation on bar 1 and my AoE rotation on bar 2 and then I have a /hotbar change X that will make my active 1 to = bar whichever I'm doing at the time. I have another bar for less used abilities that I can click with the mouse but the same concept could work for a third utility bar.

On DDs and tanks I play keyboard only.
https://i.imgur.com/lzSKwJt.png

On healers I use middle, nav forward, and nav back mouse buttons for mouseover heals, and make sure Sprint and Surecast are bound to mouse buttons as well.
https://i.imgur.com/qAvzmT2.png

More detailed keybinds:

https://i.imgur.com/ktlxnsA.png

You definitely should not use all twelve keys from [1] to [=] if you don't have both hands on the keyboard. This is because of Fitts's Law, which states that the difficulty of pressing a button increases the farther you have to move to press the button. If you only have one hand on the keyboard, you have to move your hand an obscene distance to be able to reach the other end of the number row which will make accurately pressing those buttons difficult, and then you have to move an obscene distance back to your resting position which will then make pressing should-be-easy buttons difficult while you reposition.

If you play with left hand on keyboard and right hand on mouse, you should limit your controls to this green section of the keyboard, though you might need to extend into the yellow section on some jobs:
https://i.imgur.com/B1njWgF.png
This minimizes left hand movement, which will increase input speed and accuracy.

https://i.imgur.com/fQRhFSD.png

bar with emotes on center - is the most important part

I use 1-5 (I don't have anything set to 5 though), Q, E, R, T, F, G, V, `, Mouse 4, Mouse 5, L, and Numpad +
F is always sprint
G is always knockback resist
L is always Limit Break
+ is my shield as BLM/NIN/RPR, mitigation as SAM/MNK, stance as tank, DP as Dancer, Faerie as Scholar and Kardia as Sage
1-5, Q-V all have Shift and Alt modifiers, but I have a 6th button on my mouse bound to Alt so I use that instead of pressing it normally
` only has an Alt modifier
Mouse 4 and 5 only have shift modifiers

https://imgur.com/fga1MRR

https://imgur.com/CJCJCrc

(buffs and debuffs are in the same place but buffs are ordered left-right and debuffs are right-left)

The colored box sections are toggle controlled by the bar in the bottom right.
The gear icon in that bar turns off most of my UI. I often use that for Gold Saucer gates.
https://i.imgur.com/Qjad7uM.png

https://i.imgur.com/oSfEJC5.png
https://i.imgur.com/LYoI8UK.png
https://i.imgur.com/moiLfQU.png

Edit: The bottom right bar is bound to my numpad. My abilities are bound to keyboard 1 to 12. I use left shift and left ctrl along with a 12 key gaming mouse for all my abilities.
Toggel bars are for clicking only.

Dont mind the naked catgirl

https://i.imgur.com/zV1XPid.png

https://i.imgur.com/7MTfLUG.png
https://i.imgur.com/GiMEnAH.png

I have all my HUD stuff at the bottom of my screen for convenience. That way I'm not blocking majority of the fight and I don't have to look around as much to see what's going on.

My focus bar is above my hotbars so that if I'm checking my CDs, or looking at my party's health, I can still see what's being cast.

All my attack HBs are keybound to the NUMPAD. 0-9, [.], and [/]. Then a CTRL set and an ALT set. I have my HBs 4x3 so that my skills can be in the same spot in correlation to their keybind. Makes it easier for me to remember what skill is what key.

I rebound walk from the numpad [/] to the numpad[*] to make it work better.

That way my left hand is for moving and targeting my party, and my right hand is for attacking and turning the camera. Took 3 years of tweaking my HUD to get to this stage and I love it.

I also have my side hotbar above my chat that doesn't have keybinds. I just click them.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

On DDs and tanks I play keyboard only.
https://i.imgur.com/lzSKwJt.png

On healers I use middle, nav forward, and nav back mouse buttons for mouseover heals, and make sure Sprint and Surecast are bound to mouse buttons as well.
https://i.imgur.com/qAvzmT2.png

More detailed keybinds:

https://i.imgur.com/ktlxnsA.png

You definitely should not use all twelve keys from [1] to [=] if you don't have both hands on the keyboard. This is because of Fitts's Law, which states that the difficulty of pressing a button increases the farther you have to move to press the button. If you only have one hand on the keyboard, you have to move your hand an obscene distance to be able to reach the other end of the number row which will make accurately pressing those buttons difficult, and then you have to move an obscene distance back to your resting position which will then make pressing should-be-easy buttons difficult while you reposition.

If you play with left hand on keyboard and right hand on mouse, you should limit your controls to this green section of the keyboard, though you might need to extend into the yellow section on some jobs:
https://i.imgur.com/B1njWgF.png
This minimizes left hand movement, which will increase input speed and accuracy.

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This is very much what I had in mind of trying, except not keybinding any abilities to ` and Tab. Tab is my targeting key, and ' is my focus target key, and they have been that way through all my MMOs. It'll take too much effort to undo my muscle memory. :)

https://i.imgur.com/TRAqFqL.png

I try to keep my interface as clean as possible, so I can see as much of the game's visuals as possible. I only have Party, Friends and NPC names active at all times. Everything else is Names When Targeted. I'd also make some UI elements smaller to see even more of the game itself but my eyes aren't great and I need to actually be able to see things on the UI lol.

It's so fun to look at everyone's UI!
I think it's so interesting to see what each player prioritizes and where everything fits for each person.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

You definitely should not use all twelve keys from [1] to [=] if you don't have both hands on the keyboard.

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Depends on the person. I do this all the time where I use my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse and use all those keys. You get used to where they are so muscle memory takes over if you do it often enough.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Depends on the person. I do this all the time where I use my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse and use all those keys. You get used to where they are so muscle memory takes over if you do it often enough.

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No not "depends on the person". A person might be better at hitting hard-to-hit targets; that does not make the targets themselves any less hard to hit. Do not mistake people being able to use bad UI setups effectively with people having not-bad UI setups. Can people overcome bad UI setups? Yes, of course they can. But it would be far less work and training to just use a not-bad UI setup from the start.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

No not "depends on the person". A person might be better at hitting hard-to-hit targets; that does not make the targets themselves any less hard to hit. Do not mistake people being able to use bad UI setups effectively with people having not-bad UI setups. Can people overcome bad UI setups? Yes, of course they can. But it would be far less work and training to just use a not-bad UI setup from the start.

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Or just let people use what works for them instead of trying to deal in "never do X" just because you can't personally manage it.

Let me see your keybinds. What abilities do you assign to which key? I have multiple jobs I'm playing and want to keep similar abilities on the keys.

My keybinds are pretty much standard, generally put AoE's on shiftbar , tank mit , single target healing ect. on ctrl bar , important cooldowns on seperate larger bar

Ground target abilities on middle mouse

X bind to crafting log has always been a ease of use thing

https://i.ibb.co/7g66xqm/Capture.png

https://i.ibb.co/nLYBLY7/Capture2.png

https://i.ibb.co/n78D8yL/Capture3.png

https://i.ibb.co/z834Cgh/Capture4.png

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Originally Posted by Caster-LB

My keybinds are pretty much standard, generally put AoE's on shiftbar , tank mit , single target healing ect. on ctrl bar , important cooldowns on separate larger bar

Ground target abilities on middle mouse

X bind to crafting log has always been a ease of use thing

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That's interesting stuff!

General HUD.
Shared Hotbar bottom right.
https://i.imgur.com/djIvnbm.jpg

Hotbar zoom (MMO Mouse).
Buffs on the left & debuffs on the right.
https://i.imgur.com/pC9ADdj.png

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Originally Posted by Yeol

General HUD.
Shared Hotbar bottom right.
https://i.imgur.com/djIvnbm.jpg

Hotbar zoom (MMO Mouse).
Buffs on the left & debuffs on the right.
https://i.imgur.com/pC9ADdj.png

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The health between the status effects is a neat idea but don't the status effects keep going? Wouldn't this setup result in them covering the health bar?

Still wish SE could just implement a feature that auto changes HUD-Layouts depending on the zone you are in. E.g. open world Hud Layout 1 and Battlezone/Combat/Duty Hud-Layout 2.

https://i.imgur.com/EuTJUrT.png

Only post this HUD for three things.

1. Gamepads are totally viable and comfy for your fingers if you get used to it.

2. And what I think is very interesting is shown in the bottom right corner. Bosses have sometimes unique buffs or apply certain unknown debuffs on you. This way you can check quickly, even if you already wiped or the boss lost the debuff already, what it was. I know many probably use some kind of 3rd party tools for this, but you can do it this way too. Sometimes the descriptions can be very long after all..

3. The advantage to have your own party list even in solo is to see your shields. This game doesn't have a visual indicator on your own HP bar, if you have a shield. If you are solo and you need to know how big that shield still is, you have to rely on guessing.

I don't think seeing your own buffs all the time at the bottom is valueable. Usually you know it anyway. Debuffs are more important to have in your view.

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Originally Posted by Xirean

The health between the status effects is a neat idea but don't the status effects keep going? Wouldn't this setup result in them covering the health bar?

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It won't happen because debuff & buffs have their own separate bars :D If the effects keep going, I've set them to increase outwards.

https://i.imgur.com/PnbdyEP.png

https://i.ibb.co/n17WLxf/hud.png

What hours on a striking dummy has lead to and being tutored by Mentors on Mateus who I didn't knew at the time were.... Parsers...

Mentors: WTF ARE YOU DOING CELESTI!?!? DONT LOOK AT THE HUD!?!? YOU'RE NOT FIGHTING THE HOTBARS!!! YOU'RE FIGHTING THE FIGHT!!!!!! TURN IT OFF!!!
Me: Hey D: I am new to the game DX !!! I just wanted to not be bad, listen Q_Q!!

Now... Everything is hidden, this is usually how I play and Raid .__.;

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Originally Posted by Gaspodia

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...-no?authuser=0

This is the layout I use (I'm left handed). I have a Razer Naga mouse and the combat toolbars (1 and 2) mirror the layout of the 12 buttons on the side. Bars 3 and 6 are where I put all my cooldowns, potions and markers; these are mapped to keys on the keyboard. The rest are all non combat, frequently used stuff. I use the Ins/Home/PageUp/Del/End/PageDown for mapping most of the cooldowns and frequently used stuff like mounts and F9 to F12 for other stuff. In other games I also use the number pad as being left handed, these keys are easy for me to reach and identify without looking at them :)

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LOVE this layout, hope you don't mind me using it for inspiration!! :)

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